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7Jul/0712

Guiris queue… but for what?

It's a scene I've watched dozens of times, so yesterday I decided to record it for posterity.

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  1. ^_^

    Thanks to you this video reminds me of Barcelona!

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  2. Yeah, Plaça Reial. What are they waiting for?

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  3. They are queuing to get into a restaurant!
    It's the same scene every evening apparently.

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  4. I think they're watching the juggler.

    Tom, more surprising than the length of the queue is the fact that you actually went out in Barcelona.

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  5. Huh, that's funny! I'm out in Barcelona all the time. I guess you subscribe to that 'if I don't see Tom in Barcelona, he isn't there' theory.

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  6. oh, did you go anywhere nice?

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  7. Of course not. You'd have seen me otherwise ;-)

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  8. I'm not aware of any quality restaurants in Placa Reial. Is there one there one written up in the guides?

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  9. Neither do I. However, pretty close to Plaça Reial you can find an excellent restaurant, l'Agut, on street Gignas, 16. Nice service, excellent food, and not really expensive.

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  10. I believe it is the Quinze Nits which gets the full 5 bars of guiri satisfaction from VirtualTourist.com (click here to see the reviews).

    Once somewhere like this starts to get decent reviews from travellers, the whole thing snowballs – particularly with the internet involved. Indeed, there's no such thing as a reliable hint about things any more, as the little bit of advice about a secluded bar you read on a website might have been read by a million others. That's why I never say where I've been in Barcelona: you never know who's reading.

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  11. you went to Plaça Reial last Friday, ha.

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  12. How did you know? Oh… damn!

    Actually, I love Plaça Reial. I think it's my favourite place to go in Barcelona. Also, it's a massive centre of tourist activity and so there's always stuff to watch. And you can never complain about the guiris because it's their home territory!

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